Charissa Lansing received her Ph.D. from The University of Iowa in 1984. She is an associate professor in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's Department of Speech and Hearing Science and a part-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute Human Perception and Performance Group. Her fields of profession interest are visual processes in speech perception, auditory-visual speech perception, hearing aids and sensory-prosthetic devices, and rehabilitative audiology.
Honors: Visiting Scholar U of I-KULeven Faculty Exchange Program, University of Leuven, Department of Psychology, Laboratory of Experimental Psychology, (2004); FIRST Award, National Institutes of Health, (NIH), National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCDS) (1995-99); Fellow, The Center for Advanced Study, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1994).